A Hunter’s Indian Dove (Charles Harpur Poems)
DARK is her cheek, but her blood's rich blushComes through its dusk with a sunset flush,While joy, like a prairie-bee, ...
Charles Harpur Poems (108 Poems)
A Love Fancy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Night was new-throned in heaven, and we did roveTogether in the cool and shadowless hazeThat thickened round, at the wild ...
Fragments from ‘Genius Lost’ (Charles Harpur Poems)
Prelude I SEE the boy-bard neath life's morning skies, While hope's bright cohorts guess ...
The Creek of the Four Graves [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
The Creek of the Four Graves [Early Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
Ned Connor (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TWAS night-and where a watery sound Came moaning up the Flat,Six rude and bearded stockmen round Their blazing ...
The Vision of the Rock (Charles Harpur Poems)
I SATE upon a lonely peak, A backwood river's course to view, ...
Monodies (Charles Harpur Poems)
I.I stand in thought beside my father's grave:The grave of one who, in his old age, diedToo late perhaps, since ...
Love Sonnets (Charles Harpur Poems)
How beautiful doth the morning rise O'er the hills, as from her bower a bride ...
The Bush Fire (Charles Harpur Poems)
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
The Ideal (Charles Harpur Poems)
Spirit of Dreams! When many a toilsome heightShut paradise from exiled Adam's sight,Two wedded powers were given thenceforth to strayOn ...
Shakespeare (Charles Harpur Poems)
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
The Nevers of Poetry (Charles Harpur Poems)
Never say aught in verse, or grave or gay,That you in prose would hesitate to say.Never in rhyme pretend to ...
To the Moon [Late Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
With musing mind I watch thee steal Above those envious clouds that hid ...
To the Moon [Earlier Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
WITH silent step behold her steal Over those envious clouds that hidTill now her face, then stand-a seal ...
The Death Of Shelley (Charles Harpur Poems)
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
The Drowned Alive (Charles Harpur Poems)
I was one so deeply drowned,That when the drag my body found,Twas void of motion, void of breath,And to sensation ...
The Cloud (Charles Harpur Poems)
One summer morn, out of the sea-waves wild,A speck-like Cloud, the season's fated child,Came softly floating up the boundless sky,And ...
Description of a Tropical Island (Charles Harpur Poems)
Behold an Indian isle, reposedUpon the deep's enamoured breast,Even like a royal bride, be-rosedWith passion in her happy rest.Or, when ...
Finality (Charles Harpur Poems)
A HEAVY and desolate sense of life Is all the Past makes mine-and stillA cold contempt of ...
Wordsworth (Charles Harpur Poems)
LOFTY and strenuous of sentimentBut narrow and partial in its scope and bent,And thence the bigot of a local setOf ...
A Poet to… (Charles Harpur Poems)
Long ere I knew thee-years of loveless days, A shape would gather from my dreams, and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
To — (Charles Harpur Poems)
LONG ere I knew thee-years of loveless days- A Shape would gather from my dreams and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
Joshua (Charles Harpur Poems)
When Joshua in the days of old Stood forth upon old Jordan's bank, And ...
An Aboriginal Mother’s Lament: Early Version (Charles Harpur Poems)
Still farther would I fly, my child, To make thee safer yet,From the unsparing white man, With his ...
Cora (Charles Harpur Poems)
Of Cora, once so dearly ours, Would mournful memory sing;Of how she came when came the flowers, To ...
To an Echo on the Banks of the Hunter [Early Version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
I hear thee, echo! And I start to hear thee With a strange shock, as from among the hillsThy ...
Love, Dreaming of Death (Charles Harpur Poems)
I dreamt my little boys were dead And I was sitting wild and lone;On closed unmoving knees my head ...
To Poesy (Charles Harpur Poems)
Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...
To the Comet of 1843 [late version] (Charles Harpur Poems)
Thy purpose, heavenly stranger, who may tellBut Him, who linked thee to the starry whole?Wherefore, in this our darkness, be ...